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Timing around the completion of the new St John's ambulance facility at Katikati is now unknown after a Tauranga building company has gone into voluntary liquidation owing more than $1.9 million.

An official report shows BayCom Construction, which has worked on schools, houses and commercial construction went into liquidation following a dispute with the Ministry of Education over school building weather tightness issues.

"St John are 100 per cent critical to the survival of our residents ... they have completely outgrown their current location. I am sure one way or the other the building will get completed, something will happen - the community will make sure it does."

Katikati RSA secretary Murray Rutherfurd said it had donated about $5000 to the project "and would be very upset not to see it completed".

"We operate a large retirement village here and, with the number of elderly residents, we have relied on the ambulance service over the years. That is the reason we put together the donation."